title: [Quantitative study of the faecal flora of breast- or bottle-fed neonates (author's transl)].
abstract: A blind qualitative and quantitative study of the aerobic and anaerobic faecal flora of two groups of newborn babies was carried out. One group of babies was breast-fed, while the second group was bottle-fed. In both cases the first established bacterial flora was essentially made of Escherichia coli and group D Streptococci (S. faecalis or S. bovis). On the sixth day of life a difference between he bacterial flora of the two groups was noticed, Bifidobacterium spp. was more frequently observed in the breast-fed babies. However the number of Bifidobacterium was lower than the dominant flora.
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding; D001942:Breast Feeding; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis; D004926:Escherichia coli; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn
vernacular_title: Etude quantitative comparée de la flore intestinale de nouveau-nés nourris au sein ou au lait artificiel.